Results 341-360 of 408 for speaker:Joanna Byrne

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Television Licence Fee (6 Mar 2025)

Joanna Byrne: I ask the Minister to give a timeline for the replacement of the TV licence fee by direct funding from the Exchequer, managed by Coimisiún na Meán, and to make a statement on the matter.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Television Licence Fee (6 Mar 2025)

Joanna Byrne: A vibrant, diverse, financially sustainable and independent media sector is critical to any well functioning democracy. Across Europe, the TV licence model is being phased out because it is outdated and does not work. The Minister is aware that in 2022 the Future of Media Commission recommended the TV licence fee be replaced by direct Exchequer funding in 2024. The Minister's Government...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Television Licence Fee (6 Mar 2025)

Joanna Byrne: It is interesting that the Minister asks me where I would get the figures from. I have read the Minister's brief and, in the sections that detail the agencies under the remit of his Department, the annual budget for Coimisiún na Meán is blank. No figure is provided. Is the Minister considering reforming the TV licence before providing this figure or where is he at with it? It is...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Artificial Intelligence (6 Mar 2025)

Joanna Byrne: 33. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if he will consider the development of a comprehensive creative AI strategy to protect the rights and livelihoods of those working in the Irish music industry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10151/25]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht – Questions on Policy or Legislation (5 Mar 2025)

Joanna Byrne: It is very clear the people of Ireland stand with the Palestinian people and oppose Israeli aggression and apartheid. There are groups holding events, protests, vigils and collecting signatures the length and breadth of Ireland to try to get the Government to finally pass the occupied territories Bill. The Drogheda Stands with Palestine group has mobilised in solidarity every Saturday since...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht – Questions on Policy or Legislation (5 Mar 2025)

Joanna Byrne: The question was on the occupied territories Bill.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht – Questions on Policy or Legislation (5 Mar 2025)

Joanna Byrne: Scandalous.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Cards (4 Mar 2025)

Joanna Byrne: 661. To ask the Minister for Health if consideration has been given to providing an enhanced medical card to survivors (details supplied) to enable them to access necessary treatments and therapies which they must currently pay to access; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9121/25]

Housing Commission Report: Statements (27 Feb 2025)

Joanna Byrne: Hear, hear.

Driver Test Waiting Times: Motion [Private Members] (25 Feb 2025)

Joanna Byrne: The statutory maximum waiting time for a driving test is ten weeks and no test centre in the country is meeting that or even coming close to it. There is no driving test centre in Drogheda, the largest town in Ireland and the sixth largest urban centre in the State. What will become the next city in the country has no driving test centre of its own. People in south Louth and east Meath...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (25 Feb 2025)

Joanna Byrne: The port access northern cross route in my home of Drogheda has been planned since 2006. Funding applications were refused by successive Governments right up to 2022, when phase 1 was funded by Louth County Council, Housing Infrastructure Services and developers. Phase 2 is about to commence and is to be funded by Louth County Council through development levies. Phase 3, the crucial...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (25 Feb 2025)

Joanna Byrne: It is Drogheda, Taoiseach.

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rail Network (25 Feb 2025)

Joanna Byrne: 285. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the timeline for the extension of the use of Leap Cards at Drogheda train station; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7999/25]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Departmental Strategies (25 Feb 2025)

Joanna Byrne: 467. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the measures put in place to ensure that output performance measures, key performance indicators or targets will be applied to the eight of his Department’s 14 high-level strategies that did not previously have corresponding output performance measures or targets in the revised estimates; and if he will make a statement...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Ministerial Responsibilities (25 Feb 2025)

Joanna Byrne: 481. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht when the Ministerial brief will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8020/25]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Telecommunications Infrastructure (20 Feb 2025)

Joanna Byrne: 80. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the actions he will take, along with National Broadband Ireland, to ensure that businesses and residents are not left without internet services for an extended period of time, as has happened after Storm Éowyn; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6407/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Projects (18 Feb 2025)

Joanna Byrne: 234. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport for an update on the preliminary appraisal received by his Department from Louth County Council in connection with a further phase of the port access northern cross route scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6147/25]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Sports Funding (18 Feb 2025)

Joanna Byrne: 398. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht when the sports capital and equipment programme and large-scale sport infrastructure fund will open for new applications for much-needed funding; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5982/25]

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Mental Health Services (13 Feb 2025)

Joanna Byrne: I thank the Minister of State for her response. It was very heartfelt. I believe she understands the sentiment and the urgency of this. The stark reality is that this organisation is in a very vulnerable position. Its closure would be a devastating loss to thousands of people. What is more, I do not believe the HSE and other service providers would be able to fill that gap in its absence...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Mental Health Services (13 Feb 2025)

Joanna Byrne: For 17 years since its inception in 2007, SOSAD Ireland has provided a crisis lifeline for people struggling with suicidal ideation, self-harm, depression, bereavement, stress and anxiety through the provision of free confidential counselling in-person and remotely, a 24-7 freephone helpline and an online messaging service. This work is supported by a team of 206 volunteer counsellors across...